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| STAR Web site Stanley Thornes Publishers, Spring term 1997 |
"MathsNet... a welcome addition." Times Educational Supplement 14 March 1997 |
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| "... educational and fun..." The Guardian 13 March 1997 |
"Maths teachers and students alike will find plenty to
ponder over on MathsNet, a site devoted to all things arithmetic... there's a
wealth of games, puzzles and other resources..." The Guardian 20 May 1997 |
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| "...a must see to readers of the Illinois Mathematics
Teacher." Official journal of the Illinois Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Summer 1997. |
 "PegasoWeb 4 Stars Personal Page Award for the useful contents that you offer at your site." Pegasoweb, 7 July 1997 |
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 "Today's
prescription is all about math. Boring, you say? Well, not so fast! One of the
most definitive ways of measuring a site's success is how effectively it draws
you into the subject matter (even if you don't care about the topic). On this
score, MathsNet succeeds brilliantly. This is a great site and a lot of fun
with puzzles, animations, articles and fascinating lore about numbers. There's
even a helpful collection of mathematics-related software for download. There's
a lot here to stimulate the ol' gray matter and you'll likely to have so much
fun, that you'll forget that you're actually learning something."Dr Webster's Web Site of the Day, 24 July 1997 |
"Solving problems and doing equations either on the computer
or in the classroom can become more entertaining and easier thanks to MathsNet,
an online teacher's resource about mathematics education, information
technology, and the Internet. From here, teachers can easily jump to
information on other mathematics resources, software, and articles." Overall rating: 4 stars, NetGuide.Com. |
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| "Hot Site for Teachers." The School Page, November 1997 |
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| "A useful and entertaining resource,
MathsNet provides insight into mathematical concepts, ideas for making math
more relevant, and links to additional sites where you can gather more
information. The most entertaining is Aerobi-graphs -- a section where students
use their bodies to show concepts in graphing. Be sure to check out the videos!
They really make graphing concepts come alive! There is a great section on
fractals and additional sections on spreadsheets and graphs, each with pictures
and animations. Try the Daily Puzzle and check out the Daily Fact. You may want to bookmark this site so you can check it daily. You can even submit a Daily Fact! If you're purchasing or using a graphing calculator, there is a lot of information on each brand of calculator, its functions, and links to sites where you can download information to use with a particular calculator. Find out more about using graphs and spreadsheets. Be sure to check out the animations which dramatically demonstrate mathematical principles." TOP 10 Educational Site for December 1997 Learning in Motion |
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 "Quite a source for
mathematical software, this site also offers puzzles, animations, daily math
facts, and articles to download. Don't miss the tour of the site to get the
most out of your visit."Eisenhower National Clearing House (ENC) Digital Dozen for January 1998. |
 "Educational site about mathematics aimed at students and teachers." The Bouncey Smiley Web Site Awards |
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| "A British site for mathematics, education, information
technology, and the Internet. In addition to pages on logo, spreadsheets, and
graphs, there are areas for specific educational software and articles by
contributors from the United Kingdom. Read about fractals and graphing
calculators, including the EL-9600, and find links to maths sites for
individuals, organizations, and publishers. MathsNet offers a selection of
mathematical puzzles of various kinds." March 1998 Hot Spot The Math Forum, Swarthmore |
 "Did you used to fall asleep at the back of class during your
maths lessons because you were so bored? This site might just change your mind.
It's got stacks of puzzles, animations and articles out to show that maths is
indeed mighty."Quick Hits Extra, .net magazine, Spring 1998 "Articles, links, puzzles and much more from this excellent mathematics website." MSN UK |
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| "Yell UK Web Awards nominee." Yell June 1998 |
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| "MathsNet continues to evolve and has become my
first choice, rarely letting me down when I want to search within mathematics
education." ATM Newsletter June 1998 |
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| "One of the best places to begin your exploring is MathsNet.
It has lots of material within its site, and excellent links to the wider Web.
MathsNet is a great site - it even has a floating calculator that you can keep
on screen while you work at the site." The school's guide to the INTERNET, by Peter McBride, Heinemann 1998 |
"Your site is a great educational resource for mathematics
educators. Congratulations!" Kelly Bass, Community Relations Program Manager National Semiconductor Corporation, August 1998 |
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| "Net Topper." Computer Active Magazine, August 27th, 1998 |
 Webstar Gold UK Design Awards, September 1998 |
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 "This site is a treasure trove for mathematics
teachers and students! Software, resources, activities, special focus areas on
interactive geometry and graphic calculators, the MathsNet site from the UK is
well worth a bookmark: I am sure you will be back for more!"Site of the Week, Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers, September 1998 |
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| "The site contains much
more including a puzzle page, an area devoted to fractals and an excellent
links section classified by mathematical topic. This would be a good resource
for students and teachers at schools which are switching DOS-based versions of
logo to Winlogo. Using graph-processing software and hardware in education, the site contains excellent features including animations showing transformations, a puzzle page, an area devoted to fractals, a links section classified by mathematical topic, and video clips with music offering aerobic interpretations of families of curves. Some features would invite follow-up by the students on graphics calculators/omnigraph. The site would be also suitable for KS5." BBC Education Webguide, October 1998 |
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 Laslo Web Design, October 1998 |
"Mathsnet is one of the best independent educational websites and
is sponsored by Anglia Multimedia! It covers a huge range, from finding out
about logo and spreadsheets to interactive graphing at A level." LineOne February 1999 |
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| "Bryan Dye is one of the pioneer developers of educational
websites. His fantastic MathsNet website is a tremendous resource for all
teachers and students of mathematics. Features include: Interactive, Articles,
QuizBank, Magic Grid, MathsNet Art, Puzzles and Maths Links. The website also
contains reviews of software and books for mathematicians." The Electronic Telegraph July 1999 |
"Top
5 recommendation: It all starts to add up at Maths Net, with great interactive
features to help make mathematics a little less daunting." AOL.co.uk Learning Channel July 1999 |
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 "...we must agree that this has a wealth of
mathematical interactivity. You'll probably want to have a fairly recent
browser to enjoy all the interactive fun, but Bryan's kindly pointed out what
you'll need. This is a grand example of what's possible with Javascript, so
make sure you've got it turned on. "RM Fun Site of the Moment July 1999 |
"An
excellent on-line resource for secondary maths teachers and pupils... It
provides insight into mathematical concepts, ideas for making maths more
relevant, and links to additional sites where you can gather more information..
This is a site well worth including in your favourites list." BBC Education Scotland August 1999 |
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 "Math Teachers, if you want to wake up those kids in the back
of the classroom, try introducing them to MathsNet. You'll find cool
illustrative animations, an upbeat math "exercise" section called
Aerobi-graphs, interactive puzzles, plus links to downloadable interactive
mathematics software and to the coolest math sites on the internet."Education World, September 1999. |
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 W.H.Smith Best on-line, September 1999.
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 "For flair in content, design and navigation" UKsubmit, October 1999. |
 "Materials on mathematics, information
technology, and the Internet. Includes details on educational software, graphic
calculators, fractals, art, puzzles, articles, aerobi-graphs, and a Mental
Arithmetic Test program."Best on Web, Britannica, January 2000 |
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 "Wide variety of
software to challenge Maths skills."TopMaths, Top site award for the week. April 20th 2000. |
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 First Prize for Transformations: "The
jury has appreciated this large set of web pages where one will be instructed
about geometric transformations. From ICT point of view, working with them is
very easy, in spite of the fact that mathematics in the highest levels is not
so easy! Wholly interactive, you get an immediate response on what you have
done. It constitutes a superior example of use of a preexisting environments in
building good didactic materials. "Mathplets 2000, European Schoolnet, July 2000. |
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| "This visually attractive, content-rich site provides an
impressively wide range of resources to encourage understanding in maths.
Interactive tasks persuade you to "do some maths now"; puzzles, animations,
articles, links and downloadable software are also on the menu. The What's New
section is updated weekly, and Daily Mathematical Facts, Hourly Puzzles and
quotes make this an addicitve and truly dynamic site." Educational Computing and Technology Magazine, July 2000 |
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| "This Site contains outstanding educational materials that are
directly relevant and appropriate to the needs of U.K Year 6 children working
towards Key Stage 2 SATs between levels 3 and 5 of the U.K National Curriculum.
'This site is entirely suitable for a child audience and contains no
adult-themed materials. Its content and ethos is entirely consistent with
SATs-SCHOOL's as reflected through its 'safesurf 'and 'Family-Friendly'
associations." www.SATs-school.co.uk, August 2000 |
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| "...
excellent site for both teachers and pupils. Contains teaching ideas, games and
good lists of links to other maths sites." TES Online magazine, September 2000 |
 "One of the best educational
sites on the Internet. It is well designed, is easy to navigate and has
accurate, appropriate content which is regularly updated. "TopMarks, November 2000. |
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"When it comes to big beefy maths sites, this
one from Anglia, is a monster. It's got a huge selection of resources in its
many pages, neatly tied in to the specifics of the National Curriculum, as well
as some more general maths stuff, including puzzles, software to download and
news on related issues, such as ICME9, the International Mathematics Conference
recently held in Japan. As well as daily facts and puzzles, there's plenty to
really get your teeth into here, ranging from childishly simple to downright
dastardly - problems that would give even Carol Vordeman a good run for her
money." 5 stars,  Web
Guide Special, Top 1000 sites , December 2000 |
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| ...really
catchy website. Pop over to the interactive puzzles section and before you know
it you will have been there an hour, had fun, and learned a thing or two about
maths. Now that's what we call clever. the Virgin Internet Guide for kids, Version 1, December 2000 |
 www.byteachers.org.uk, an association of web sites created by the real experts - teachers, March 2001 |
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| Search engine ratings for MathsNet, April 2001 If you search for "maths": 1st at uk.searchengine.com/, 1st at hotbot.lycos.com/, 2nd out of 638,000 at www.google.com, 3rd out of 180071 at www.ukmax.com/index/, 4th at www.hotbot.lycos.co.uk, 7th out of 312,036 at www.lycos.co.uk . If you search for "interactive geometry": 5th and 10th out of 267,000 at www.google.com If you search for "geometric construction": 2nd out of 175,000 at www.google.com |
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 Highly rated.Schoolzone, May 2001 |
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 Shortlisted in the ICT in PRACTICE
AWARDS, Innovation and Change. "MathsNet's innovative web-based materials are aimed primarily at school use but can also be utilised by students at home." BECTa 2002 |
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 Excerpts from an evaluation by
TEEM: "This site covers many aspects of the Maths program of study
from KS1 to KS4 and into A and AS Level. There are also areas of interest,
puzzles, articles etc that make the whole site a very useful resource for
teachers and pupils. The strongest feature for me is the use of dynamic
geometry to illustrate properties of geometrical shapes. I found that the site
had already developed resources with software such as Geometer Sketchpad and
Cinderella that would have taken me a lot of time to develop for myself, and it
was all there for me to use in an interactive and visual way... Overall, the time spent in exploring the site will save time later, and I am sure that is one of the main reasons that Bryan Dye has developed this excellent site... This website is huge, but has tremendous possibilities to Maths teachers throughout the age range from KS1 to A Level ... It supports teaching and given time, can be an invaluable tool to help teachers deliver lessons interactively and in a way that enhances learning. A great site that every Maths teacher should visit." Read the full review at TEEM.org.uk May 2002 |
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| "Number one MathsNet.net is a website sans pareil for anyone with any interest in mathematics. Bryan Dye has received many awards for his site, which will help thousands of students, teachers and researchers explore a vast treasure house of mathematics... The home page greets you with so much interesting material I was not sure where to start. Since I have an interest in dynamic geometry software (DGS) I looked at the interactive geometry link. This offered far more than I ever imagined. Java applets allow you to interact with the software and all the major programs can be explored without the need to have any installed. Where next? I then visited the GCSE revision site and was delighted with what I saw. Neatly sorted links allow pupils to revise at their own pace and practise whatever they want. Make sure your students are aware of this site, but beware - they may never bother you again. AS/A2 or algebra, GCSE or geometry, enrichment and entertainment: this site has it all. This review took me absolutely ages since I kept getting trapped in the activities that abound on the site. However, I now know where my pupils will be going frequently. Make this site your number one priority." Peter Ransom, TES, January 10th 2003. |
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 Five star site. Schoolzone, October 2003 |
Search engine
ratings for MathsNet, Jan 2004 If you search for "maths": 8th out of 1,830,000 at www.google.com, 10th out of 1.982.593 at www.lycos.co.uk, . If you search for "interactive geometry": 10th out of 533,000 at www.google.com If you search for "geometric construction": 5th out of 391,000 at www.google.com |
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Review of www.mathsnetgcse.com "Focused on GCSE mathematics, this site is an excellent attempt
to offer a solid set of resources for home practice. It contains hundreds of
questions, covering syllabus staples such as numbers, geometry and algebra. The
scarcity of "multiple guess" questions is refreshing. Instead, there are
typical maths problems containing randomnly generated figures, with
step-by-step guides to solving them. Click to see each step, then try a similar
but fresh task. Though the annual cost is £15 for after-school access
(more for schools themselves), this is not unreasonable. The look is
reminiscent of the days when the web was not so flash, but at least it works
over a dial-up connection. The sister site, www.mathsnet.net - an
every-trick-in-the-book resource - is gloriously untidy, but still
free"The Sunday Times, Feb 1st 2004: |
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| Search engine ratings for MathsNet, June 2005 If you search for "maths": 2nd out of 6,170,000 at www.google.com, 11th out of 3,042,000 at www.lycos.co.uk, . If you search for "interactive geometry": 4th out of 1,600,000 at www.google.com If you search for "geometric construction": 3rd out of 1,980,000 at www.google.com If you search for "A Level Mathematics": 1st out of 1,710,000 at www.google.com |
Search engine ratings for MathsNet, Nov 2005 If you search for "maths": 3nd out of 17,900,000 at www.google.com, 9th out of 919,709 at www.lycos.co.uk, . If you search for "interactive geometry": 4th out of 5,740,000 at www.google.com If you search for "geometric construction": 1st out of 5,100,000 at www.google.com If you search for "A Level Mathematics": 1st out of 54,200,000 at www.google.com |
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| Shortlisted in the Innovative Teachers Awards 2006, sponsored
by Microsoft Selected as one of 25 finalists from the UK Innovative Teachers, February 2006: |
Highly recommended. Schoolzone, March 2007 |
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MathsNet.net is an independent
educational website providing free mathematics resources to the education
community. Its aim is to offer truly interactive resources that are both wide
and deep in terms of their applicability and usefulness. 
If you really want to know, there is, sadly,
only one main creator of MathsNet and my name is 
